Butthole Surfers regroup for road trip

The Butthole Surfers have reunited their '80s-era lineup--Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, Jeff Pinkus, King Coffey and Teresa Taylor--for a September/October tour that will culminate in a pair of Halloween shows in Texas that will also feature Peaches.

One of the two Texas dates--in Austin--allows Peaches to make good on a sold-out show she had to cancel there in June when bad weather in Dallas prevented her band from making the flight down.

The California stretch of the tour will pair The Butthole Surfers with veteran punk experimentalists The Melvins in San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles.

The taper-friendly Surfers have gone a step farther than most bands who approve of fan trading; they've actually created a "Buttlegs" section on their official website to distribute some of the better-sounding boots of various tours along with some studio tracks, all in the form of unprotected MP3 files.

In the spring, The Lemonheads released an album of cover songs produced by Buttholes co-founder Gibby Haynes, which Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando says was inspired by the regular mixtapes Haynes has made him over the years.

The 11-track collection features Lemonheads versions of Wire's "Fragile," Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful," Townes Van Zandt's "Waiting Around To Die" and Leonard Cohen's "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye."